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Journal of Scholarly Publishing 

Volume 43, Number 4, July 2012 

http://utpjournals.metapress.com/content/q48333208168/

This issue contains: 

 

Giving It Away: Sharing and the Future of Scholarly Communication

Kathleen Fitzpatrick    

 

Debates about open-access scholarly publishing often focus on the costs of
scholarship, whether costs incurred by publishers in producing books and
journals or costs faced by libraries in acquiring those publications. Taking
those costs as the centre of such discussions often results in an impasse,
as the financial realities of publishing—particularly within disciplines
that are less well-funded than STEM fields (science, technology, engineering
and mathematics)—seem to present an insurmountable obstacle to greater
openness. What if, however, we were to refocus the discussion on values
rather than costs? How might such a shift in focus lead us to think
differently about the motives and benefits involved in scholarly
communication, and how might this lead us to recognize the generosity that
keeps the engine running?

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DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.4.347

 

The Price of University Press Books: 2009–2011

Albert N. Greco, Robert M. Wharton, Falguni Sen    

 

Drawing on the data collected by Yankee Book Peddler, this article analyses
the average prices and title output of books published by university presses
and commercial scholarly and professional publishers in 2009, 2010, and
2011. The authors also sought to answer a series of questions that have long
perplexed the entire university press community: First, are too many
scholarly books being published in North America; second, what are the
channels of distribution for these books, and have they changed recently;
and third, can university presses develop a strategy that will enable them
to maintain their role as the pivotal source of substantive scholarly
research?

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DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.4.363

 

First among Equals: Robert Recorde and Innovative Publishing in the
Sixteenth Century

Trevor Lipscombe       

 

Publishing is going through a period of tremendous change. The same was true
in the sixteenth century. This article explores how the publication of
Robert Recorde's The Whetstone of Witte in 1557, in which the equals sign
was used for the first time, serves, along with his other mathematical
books, as a model for innovation.

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DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.4.381

 

The E-book and Spanish Scientific Publishers in Social and Human Sciences

Irene-Sofía Romero-Otero, Elea Giménez-Toledo    

 

The purpose of this article is threefold: (1) To study the course of
development, approaches, and strategies of Spanish scientific publishers
specializing in the humanities and social sciences; (2) to establish a
profile of publishers based on their information and attitudes; and (3) to
identify the opportunities and challenges which exist for publishers.
In-depth interviews were conducted with twenty-eight relevant Spanish
publishers; their attitudes were observed to be generally cautious,
expectant, and in favour of maintaining the status quo, despite all being
convinced that the e-book is an element transforming the publishing sector
and that, in the near future, both the printed and electronic book will
coexist. This study provides information direct from the publishers
themselves, offering theorists detailed and accurate insight into the
publishing sector and better opportunity to evaluate the impact of publisher
attitudes on other agents implicated in the development of the e-book. The
study puts on record the first stage of the irruption and consolidation of
the e-book in the Spanish academic sector. It also establishes comparisons
with publishing sectors of other countries.

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DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.4.395

            

Scientometric Analysis of Nuclear Science and Technology Research Output in
Iran

Mohammad Reza Davarpanah          

 

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate internationally published
research productivity and make quantitative and qualitative assessments of
the status of nuclear science and technology in Iran. The data have been
collected from the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) for the years
1990–2010. The results of this work reveal that the Iranian literature on
nuclear science and technology has grown exponentially during the study
period. The average number of citations per paper is 5.64. Academic
institutions are the main source of research productivity. About 93 per cent
of the papers are co-authored. Internationally co-authored papers enjoy
higher citation rates in comparison with domestic papers. Disciplinary
characterization of the Iranian nuclear science and technology research
identifies that emphasis is placed on physics and chemistry and that the
publications in which the research appears are distributed evenly among a
number of scientific fields.

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DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.4.421

 

A Short Note on Short Notes

Stephen K. Donovan  

 

This is a short note. It is tightly focused and brief; its message can be
rapidly assimilated by the reader. Like Robert Boyle in the seventeenth
century, I bemoan the modern focus on lengthier publications, possibly the
result of pressure from managers on academics to encourage them to publish
long and ‘significant’ papers in leading journals. Yet, the most important
paper published in the life sciences during the twentieth century was only
two pages long.

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DOI: 10.3138/jsp.43.4.440

 

Review

Steven E. Gump         

 

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